​Sponsor Opportunities

Click into each for event details, or contact Kenny Parker or Maura Kistler for sponsorship details. Contact info available here.

In 2013 we held the final New River Rendezvous. It was the 10th such event and marked the end of an era, not just for the thousands of climbers who hold memories of legendary gathering near and dear to their hearts, but also for our numerous sponsors. We invented the event-ownership model of Rendezvous sponsorship, and the loss of the NRR left a hole in the hearts and promotion budgets of a lot of fantastic companies.

Then came PsicoRoc, to date, America's only real-stone deep water soloing competition.

"...when NRAC puts on an event, sponsors get value far and above nebulous promises of 'exposure.'"

In short, when NRAC puts on an event, sponsors become part of something far more valuable than nebulous promises of "exposure." You have at least two such opportunities in 2019.

1.(Not) Work Week, May 11-18, 2019, will be a week of intense service projects, typically including a massive trail building event. It provides 8 days worth of opportunities to reach your target audience and put a giant check mark in the stewardship column of your annual event budget. We work directly with climbing gyms, a target-rich environment for companies such as yours, to fill this event full of volunteers.

Your audience will be the volunteers working that day and everybody at the American Alpine Club Campground that night. Want to put on an evening program? Go for it. Want to get creative with your day? Yes, please do.

Social and email content leading up to and through the event.

NEW! Climbing-Gym-Only Sponsorship Level: $250 cash.

Gyms Get:

Social and email content leading up to and through the event.

Rebroadcast rights to the Appalachian Outdoor Film Fest. Host your own as a membership enhancement or easily make your sponsor money back on door receipts.

​2. Appalachian Outdoor Film Festival, May 18, 2019. (Not) Work Week will end on the afternoon on Saturday, May 18, when it will culminate in the fourth annual AOFF. With this brick-and-mortar, real-life (not virtual) film festival we’re introducing a sponsorship opportunity with a superb shelf life. There are three levels of buy-in for the film festival: Sponsors and Title Sponsors—there are only two slots for Title Sponsors--and a brand new level, Gym Sponsor.

SPONSOR BUY-IN: $300 cash, plus $200 product, which we will give away during the festival, possibly as raffle prizes, depending on the product.

You Get:

A 30-second commercial, which will run during opening sponsor reel. This will live forever as part of this year's touring fest.

Social and email content leading up to and through the event.

Your product potentially in the raffle (depending on the product). It could also be an audience giveaway.

A 60-90 second commercial, which will run during opening sponsor reel.

Your product in the raffle.

You will own one of the two awards presented—the Judges' Choice or the Peoples’ Choice, both of which are $500 cash prizes. If you wish, you may present the award to its winner, at which time, you may take a minute to talk about your company. Imagine it! “Now to present the <your company’s name> Peoples’ Choice Award, <your name> of <your company>. Cue thunderous applause.

NEW! Climbing-Gym-Only Sponsorship Level: $250 cash.

Gyms Get:

Social and email content leading up to and through the event.

Rebroadcast rights to the Appalachian Outdoor Film Fest. Host your own as a membership enhancement or easily make your sponsor money back on door receipts.